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SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hemisphere to the south of the equator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)
Meronyms (parts of "southern hemisphere"):
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
Gondwanaland (a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica)
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Context examples:
By observing non-visible infrared light hundreds of miles above the gas giant, scientists found temperatures to be much higher in certain latitudes and longitudes in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, where the spot is located.
(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)
The team had shown there was seasonal activity in gullies — primarily in the southern hemisphere — over the past couple of years, and carbon dioxide frost is the main mechanism they suspected of causing it.
(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)
Imke de Pater, professor and chair of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered the first two massive eruptions on Aug. 15, 2013, in Io's southern hemisphere, using the near-infrared camera (NIRC2) coupled to the adaptive optics system on the Keck II telescope, one of two 10-meter telescopes operated by the Keck Observatory.
(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)
Instead, Mars has umbrella-shaped magnetic fields that sprout out of the ground like mushrooms, here and there, but mainly in the southern hemisphere.
(Auroras on Mars, NASA)
